July 3, 2012

A couple of months ago, I stumbled upon a great blog by Michele Perry...

she had just started this new series entitled The Inspired Life and I have been LOVING it!

(Click on the link and check it out... jump in and play with us!)

Seriously - check out the blog... the first blog with an 'assignment' if you will,

prompted us to buy a child's watercolor set and play around with color combo's

and come up with some creative color names!

I loved the suggestion to purchase a kids' set of watercolors

- it truly DID make it easier to just relax and play!

The second 'Assignment' was more of a writing project, which is more in my comfort zone! The task was to find your voice... and Michele went on to talk about how to find your authentic voice you must find where 3 areas overlap... those areas are #1 - your intimacy with God; #2 - Your spiritual geography; #3 - your DNA (What you Do well & love, what is most importaNt to you, and what fuels your pAssion!) The author has you ask Jesus to tell you 3 words or phrases that describes what He likes about you... (such a fun exercise!) Next she asks you to describe your everyday world. She says that often, your natural geography will give way to a metaphor of your spiritual geography.

Now here was my chance to look around and paint a picture with words...

and a nice straight flat portion of my route that stretches on for miles.

The climb down leads back into town.

I enter more traffic, more people. more distractions...

less rural and ritz, more urban & middle class."

So the Spiritual Metaphor for my life right now is that I am called to climb up higher... to spend time at the top, and to go back to daily life and share what I have seen and heard! I am declaring and decreeing that the Glory of the Lord will come and fill my Valley with His Presence, His Power, and His great (creative!) Purposes!

(Next... was to paint a picture with watercolors:)

I believe next up (before I move on to the next post) will be to capture some of these scenes with my beloved camera!

So... all of that to ask you this:

What is YOUR Spiritual geography? Look around... I mean REALLY look around you. What is surrounding you in the natural and how does this create a metaphor for your spiritual geography? I invite you to go outside... open your eyes to see on a different level... and ask the Lord to show you where He is taking you!